Steam Bans Dev for a Year For Exploiting Potentially Harmful Script Tag Bug

Vulnerability would have potentially allowed hackers to redirect users to harmful websites.

Developer Tomas Duda has been banned from Steam for reporting a script tag error to Valve which could potentially be used by hackers to redirect gamers to harmful websites.

The Euro Truck Simulator developer realised that users could use script tags on Steam to redirect visitors to another site. Duda sent people to the Harlam Shake video but as he points out, the vulnerability could easily be used to send people to phishing websites or to steal personal information.

I was talking about the script tag vulnerability multiple times. No one fixed it. Now I did Harlem Shake for fun (yay for #steamdb).